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Tom Lantos, Congress’s Sole Shoah Survivor, Dies at 80Tom Lantos, the lone Holocaust survivor to serve in America’s Congress, died Monday morning after a battle with cancer of the esophagus. He was 80.…Read more

Museum Creator Made Home for ArtifactsMiles Lerman, who was central to the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, died January 22 after a long illness.…Read more

Raul Hilberg, Pioneering Scholar of HolocaustRaul Hilberg, the pioneering scholar in the academic study of the Holocaust, died of lung cancer August 4 in Burlington, Vermont. He was 81.…Read more

Were Rosen and Weissman Guilty Only of Being Right Too Early?Instead of being grounds for prosecution, perhaps the influence Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman were trying to exert — making officials and the public aware of the danger from Iran — should be heralded.…Read more

Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Legendary Nazi HunterThe death of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal brings to a close a storied career shrouded in achievement, in dazzle and perhaps even in mystery. Wiesenthal’s life, like those of all Holocaust survivors, may be described in three chapters: “Before,” “During” and “After.” The last is the most mysterious.“Before” was the life of a young…Read more

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